Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Award is the only Gramophone Classical Music Award decided by public vote (vote here). The 10 orchestras nominated this year are: Bayerisches Staatsorchester (Germany), Budapest Festival Orchestra (Hungary), Czech Philharmonic (Czech Republic), The Hallé (UK), Les Siècles (France), Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Europe), Oslo Philharmonic (Norway), Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (USA), Sinfonia of London (UK), Vienna Philharmonic (Austria).

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Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Emerging from the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 1997, and nurtured in its early days by Claudio Abbado, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra gathers together about 45 players from 20 different countries. It has established itself as one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras and regularly works with the musical greats of today. Their two ‘Mozart Momentum’ collections, with Leif Ove Andsnes directing from the piano, as well as working on chamber music together, have been triumphs, drawing praise from Harriet Smith who declared them ‘some of the finest Mozart-playing on the planet’.

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